Major POS | Minor POS | Example | Descriptions | *Gender/ Number Applicable? |
Noun | Common Noun | man, cow | represents an entire species or class of people | A |
Proper Noun | Ram, Hari | name of a specific person, animal, object | A |
Material Noun | water, table | represents an entire class of non-living thing | P |
Verbal Noun | tour, movement | represents the action i.e. the abstract noun from of verbs | N |
Abstract Noun | happiness, beauty | reprents a quality or emotion i.e. abstract noun from of adjectives, emotions etc | N |
Pronoun | | he, she, they, yesterday, now | Place holder of a noun | A |
Adjective | Proper Adjective | beautiful, ugly | qualifies a noun | A |
Verbal Adjective | drawn, edited | refers to objects modified by an action | N |
Adjective Adjective | very much, too many | qualifies another adjective | N |
Adverb | quickly, repeatedly | qualifies a verb | N |
Verb | Transitive | eat, get | The subject effects an object by the action | N |
Intransitive | walk, cry | The subject DOES NOT effect an object by the action | N |
Others | Adposition (Preposition, Postposition & Circumposition) | of, to, in, for, on, with, as, by, at, from | indicates a relation between things mentioned in a sentence | N |
Interjection | oh! bravo! | has no grammatical connection to the rest of the sentence and simply expresses emotion on the part of the speaker | N |
Conjunction | for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so , both … and, either … or, neither … nor, and not (only) … but (… also), although, before, until, while | connects two words, phrases, or clauses together | N |